Location Terms
Towards the face.
What is Anterior?
Near or towards the midline of the body.
What is Medial?
Occurring on the same side of the body.
What is Ipsilateral?
The cerebrum is ______ to the brainstem.
What is Superior?
The occipital lobe is the most ______ lobe.
What is Posterior?
To the side of the body or brain
What is Lateral?
Towards the surface.
What is Superficial?
Close to the point of attachment or center of the body.
What is Proximal?
The frontal lobe is ______ to the parietal lobes.
What is Anterior?
(Two Answers) The dura mater is the most _______ layer of the meninges, and the pia mater is the most _____.
What is Superficial and Deep?
Towards the back of the body.
What is Posterior?
Towards the backside of the body and brain.
What is Dorsal?
Away from the point of attachment or center of the body.
What is Distal?
You can find the corpus callosum located on the ______ surface of the hemispheres.
What is Medial?
The anterior fossa is located in the _____ region of the brain.
What is Rostral?
This slice goes parallel to the forehead and separates the brain into anterior and posterior sections.
What is a Coronal Slice?
Away from the surface of the body and brain.
What is Deep?
The ______ roots, are towards the belly and they are efferent motor nerves of the spinal cord.
The spinal cord terminates ______(-ly) at the conus medullaris.
What is Caudal?
Towards the abdominal surface.
Towards the brain.
What is Rostral?
With a _____ _____, you will be able to see the ventricles, thalamus, and hippocampus.
What is a Coronal Slice?
Nerve tracts cross from one side of the central nervous system to the other, and therefore provide _______ sensory and motor control for the body.
What is Contralateral?
Towards the bottom.
What is Inferior?
Towards the tailbone.
What is Caudal?
(Two answers) The cerebellum is ______ to the occipital and temporal lobes, and ______ to the brainstem.
What is Inferior and Dorsal?
For the cranial nerves, most information is processed _______(-ly), which is opposite to the spinal nerves.
What is ipsilateral?
Toward the head/top.
What is Superior?
Occurring on the opposite side of the body.
What is Contralateral?
There are two ______ ventricles, and they are named this because they are on each hemisphere (side) of the cerebrum.
What is Lateral?
(Two Answers) The ______ part of the spinal cord connects to the brainstem, and the _____ part is towards the cauda equina.
What is Proximal and Distal?